Desert Warfare
Modern Horizons 3 Commander 116 • rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Commander
- Collector number
- 116
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana green mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Alexandre Honoré
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Whenever you sacrifice a Desert and whenever a Desert card is put into your graveyard from your hand or library, put that card onto the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next end step.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Deserts, create that many 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens. They gain haste.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Desert Warfare was released in 2024 as part of the Modern Horizons 3 Commander set, a collection designed to bridge the gap between Modern-legal card design and the multiplayer Commander format. The card belongs to the Tricky Terrain deck, a preconstructed deck centered on land-based strategies and the resurgence of the Desert land type, which had been absent from core mechanics for several years.
The card features artwork by artist Jason A. Engle, who has contributed extensively to the Magic: The Gathering aesthetic. His design choices emphasize the harsh, tactical nature of desert combat, aiming to reflect the card's function of creating defensive reinforcements in the form of Sand Warrior tokens. The card was well-received by players focusing on land-synergy archetypes, particularly for its utility in generating board presence from the graveyard or battlefield.
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